72 Hereford Street
2 council reports since May 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 53 Hereford Street, 125 reports on file.
On the register here
- Hereford Street Bridge, 71 Hereford Street (39m)
- Mill Island and Setting, 71 Hereford Street (48m)
- Public Trust Building, 152 Oxford Terrace (57m)
- Captain Robert Falcon Scott Statue and Setting, 153 Oxford Terrace (106m)
- Bridge of Remembrance and Setting, 88 Cambridge Terrace (134m)
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →
The green nearby
- Scott Statue Reserve, 96 m to the edge · Botanic
- Bridge Of Remembrance, 113 m to the edge · Botanic
- Friendship Corner, 136 m to the edge · Botanic
- Godley Statue Reserve, 184 m to the edge · Botanic
- Tiffany Reserve, 194 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Civic Offices, 190 m away · Council office
- Triangle, 262 m away · Car park
- Scales, 290 m away · Car park
- Turanga Library, 336 m away · Library
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 352 m away · Car park
- Armagh Street, 414 m away · Car park
- Aldersgate, 460 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Original Sin, 9 m away · Restaurants
- Franklin Smith, 13 m away · Business
- Kong, 18 m away · Bars & pubs
- Taste of Egypt - CBD, 21 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Hereford St near Montreal St, 244 m away · route 8
- Hereford St near Montreal St, 246 m away · route 8
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 11 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 22 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 68 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 128 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 134 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- The Somme, 49 m away ·
THE SOMME / This tree was planted to commemorate the 100th anniversary of New Zealand's in
· 2016 - Avon Riverbank Central City plaque, 55 m away ·
(illegible – tree plaque at base, distant)
- In Memory of the A‑bomb Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 72 m away ·
In memory of the A‑Bomb victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki / He tohu whakamaumahara kite iw
· 2000
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Christchurch Central City ran about $508 a week, $42 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Trees - General, 7 Oct 2026 street tree has been destroyed on Hereford Street
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 27 May 2025
Elsewhere on Hereford Street
- 53 Hereford Street, 125 reports
- 71 Hereford Street, 91 reports
- 48 Hereford Street, 76 reports
- 197 Hereford Street, 62 reports
- 141 Hereford Street, 62 reports
- 262 Hereford Street, 59 reports
- 214 Hereford Street, 53 reports
- 147 Hereford Street, 46 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Hereford Street in 154 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 25 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.
Hereford Street, the whole record → · Everything about Christchurch Central City → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
2 council reports on record since May 2025, most often trees - general (1), graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Hereford Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Hereford Street Bridge, Mill Island and Setting.
Scott Statue Reserve, 96 m to its edge.